Your brain, like a surly movie critic or a high school clique, specializes in rejection. The chief rejecter is the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex, just behind your forehead.

PTSD and ADHD can have serious impacts on your health and well-being. We’re learning these conditions may have more in common than previously known -- if you have one, your chances are much higher for ...

In some parts of the world, record numbers of people are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the United States, for example, government researchers last year ...

For Olivia Dreizen Howell, living with undiagnosed, untreated ADHD meant hearing a constant cacophony. "It's like being at a Broadway show with headphones, and with TVs surrounding [you]," she says.

If you’re an adult with ADHD, you’re among millions of other grownups who also live with it. Scientists know your genes play a major role in your chances of having it. They also know there’s a strong ...

ADHD and autism often co-occur, with statistics estimating that 50–70% of individuals with ASD also present symptoms of ADHD. While several past neuroscience studies investigated these two distinct ...

Evidence suggests attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity share overlapping genetic pathways and hereditary factors, but executive dysfunction, ADHD medications, and individual ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, affects roughly 3 percent of adults around the world. However, many of those with the condition remain undiagnosed, especially women. According to ...